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March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is encouraging small employers that provide health insurance coverage to their employees to check out the small business...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Many defined contribution (DC) plan investors lack key information that could help them plan...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - In 2011, 18% of Vanguard retirement plan participants held extreme asset allocations—10% with only equities and 8% with no equities.

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Putnam Investments named Scott C. Sipple as head of investment product management and development. 

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Open-end mutual funds had their strongest long-term flows in nearly two years with an estimated $44 billion in February inflows.

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Jeffrey Carney will head Charles Schwab as head of its retail branch network.

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - BMO Institutional Trust Services initiated a Retirement Readiness program to help employers better prepare employees for retirement.

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Jon Prescott has been named president of CPI Qualified Plan Consultants, Inc. 
 

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 22nd annual Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) by the Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI), found workers’ confidence in their ability to afford a...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Ohio’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against Bank of New York Mellon Corp for...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – A survey by Mercer found that 41% of organizations with assets below $500 million are considering investment outsourcing.  

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Invest n Retire, LLC has been a big proponent of using exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in defined contribution (DC) plans, and now it has...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The Dietrich Pension Risk Transfer Index dropped one point from the prior month’s level of 86.35 and currently sits at 85.31 as of...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The 22nd annual Retirement Confidence Survey (RCS) finds that Americans’ confidence in their ability to afford a comfortable retirement is stagnant in the...

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Workers are slow to embrace new technologies to help them manage their finances. 

March 13, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The age workers plan to retire continues to see a slow upward trend. 

March 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) – Kevin J. Callahan joined Duff & Phelps Investment Management Co. in a new position as senior vice president and director, institutional clients.  

March 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - U.S. exchange-traded funds (ETFs) saw $15 billion in net inflows in February 2012.

March 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - Investors put an estimated $46 billion in net inflows into stock and bond mutual funds in the U.S. in February 2012.

March 12, 2012 (PLANSPONSOR.com) - The California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) on Monday began a live webcast of its monthly meetings via the fund’s website at